Hans-Johann Glock

Hans-Johann Glock, Prof. Dr.

Ordinarius / Full Professor

Phone: +41 44 634 51 57

Address: UZH, Philosophisches Seminar, Zürichbergstrasse 43, CH-8044 Zürich

Room number: ZUP-F-117

glock@philos.uzh.ch

Office hours

Wednesday, 15:00 to 16:00 , Zürichbergstrasse 43, 1. floor, room 117 (Please make an appointment: 044 634 45 31 or philsem@philos.uzh.ch).

Research

Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Language
History of Analytic Philosophy
Wittgenstein
Concepts
Animal Minds
Normativity of Language

Research Database University of Zurich

Curriculum vitae

02/2017 – 01/2021	Head of Department, Department of Philosophy, UZH
2014	Research Award Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2009 – 2014	President Philosophische Gesellschaft Zürich
since 2006	University of Zurich, Philosophisches Seminar: Ordinarius, Chair of Theoretical Philosophy of Zurich, Philosophical Seminar: Ordinarius, Lehrstuhl of Theoretical Philosphy Visiting Professor, University of Reading, UK
1997 - 2000	Visiting Professor, Queen's University, Kanada Hugh-Le May Research Fellow, Rhodes University, Südafrika
1998 - 2000, 2004	Research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung at the University of Bielefeld
1991 - 2006	University of Reading, Department of Philosophy: Lecturer (1991), Reader (1997), Professor of Philosophy (2003)
1990 - 1991	Junior Research Fellow am St. John's College, Oxford
1981 - 1990	Studies: Philosophy, Linguistics und Mathematics at Tübingen, FU Berlin and Oxford. M. A. Berlin 1986; D.phil. Oxford 1990

complete curriculum vitae (PDF, 374 KB)

Editorial Board

Ratio, Wittgenstein Studies

Memberships

Aristotelian Society
Gesellschaft für Analytische Philosophie
UK Kant Society
Deutsche Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft
Philosophische Gesellschaft Zürich

Teaching

Publications

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2021
- Scientific Publication in Electronic Form
  - Glock, Hans Johann; Bossart, Yves (2021). Hans-Johann Glock – Tiere verstehen, aber wie?. SRF: Sternstunde Philosophie.
2020
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2020). Flüchtige Gedanken über Nachdenklichkeit. In: Abbt, Christine; Schoeller, Donata; von Sass, Hartmut. Nachdenklichkeit. Zürich: Diaphanes, 59-70.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2020). Analytische Philosophie (I): Willard Van Orman Quine. In: Urbich, Jan; Zimmer, Jörg. Handbuch Ontologie. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 236-242.
- Newspaper Article
  - Glock, Hans Johann; Nickl, Roger. Computer sind nicht neugierig. In: UZH Magazin : die Zeitschrift der Universität Zürich : die Wissenschaftszeitschrift, 1, 2020, p.35-37.
2019
- Journal Article
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2019). Agency, intelligence and reasons in animals. Philosophy, 94(04):645-671.
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2019). What Is Meaning? A Wittgensteinian Answer to an Un-Wittgensteinian Question. In: Conant, James; Sunday, Sebastian. Wittgenstein on Philosophy, Objectivity, and Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 185-210.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2019). The normativity of meaning revisited. In: Roughley, Neil; Bayertz, Kurt. The Normative Animal?: On the Anthropological Significance of Social, Moral, and Linguistic Norms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 295-318.
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2019). Aristotle on the anthropological difference and animal minds. In: Keil, Geert; Kreft, Nora. Aristotle's Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 140-160.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2019). Animal consciousness – A limit of language?. In: Appelqvist, Hanne. Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language. New York: Routledge, 197-222.
  - Glock, Hans Johann; Schmidt, Eva (2019). Objectivism and causalism about reasons for action. In: Schumann, Gunnar. Explanation in Action Theory and Historiography : Causal and Teleological Approaches. Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 124-145.
2018
- Journal Article
  - Glock, Hans Johann; Bonino, Guido; Tripodi, Paolo (2018). Interviews on the history of late analytic philosophy - Interview with Hans-Johann Glock. Philosophical Inquiries, 6(1):26-29.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2018). The awful English language. Philosophical Papers, 47(1):123-154.
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans-Johann (2018). Critical note: language and learning from the 4e perspective. In: Newen, Albert; De Bruin, Leon; Gallagher, Shaun. The Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 706-716.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2018). Semantics: Why rules ought to matter. In: Beran, Ondrej; Kolman, Vojtech; Koren, Ladislav. From rules to meanings: New essays on inferentialism. London, 63-80.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2018). What have the Historians ever done for us?. In: van Ackeren, Marcel; Klein, Lee. Philosophy and the historical perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 18-35.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2018). Animal rationality and belief. In: Andrews, Kirstin; Beck, Jacob. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Animal Minds. London: Routledge, 89-99.
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2018). Denken. In: Ach, Johann S; Borchers, Dagmar. Handbuch Tierethik : Grundlagen – Kontexte – Perspektiven. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler Verlag, n/a.
  - Glock, Hans Johann; Büttner, Kai M (2018). Mathematik und Begriffsbildung. In: Bromand, Joachim. Wittgenstein und die Philosophie der Mathematik. Paderborn: Mentis Verlag, 175-194.
2017
- Journal Article
  - Townsend, Simon W; Koski, Sonja E; Byrne, Richard W; Slocombe, Katie E; Bickel, Balthasar; Boeckle, Markus; Braga Goncalves, Ines; Burkart, Judith M; Flower, Tom; Gaunet, Florence; Glock, Hans Johann; Gruber, Thibaud; Jansen, David A W A M; Liebal, Katja; Linke, Angelika; Miklósi, Ádám; Moore, Richard; van Schaik, Carel P; Stoll, Sabine; Vail, Alex; Waller, Bridget M; Wild, Markus; Zuberbühler, Klaus; Manser, Marta B (2017). Exorcising Grice's ghost: an empirical approach to studying intentional communication in animals. Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 92(3):1427-1433.
- Book Section
  - Glock, Hans Johann (2017). Wittgenstein's Rain in the 'philosophical desert': Pragmatist ideas in post-war Oxford. In: Misak, Cheryl; Price, Huw. The practical turn: Pragmatism in Britain in the long Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 131-148.